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John Palmer's Crazy
Crate JP 59October 1, 2010
Census indexes and Transcriptions
Hello Everyone,
Our previous Crazy
Crate covered Illinois Census Indexes and
Transcriptions.
More on these will follow in another crate later.
This Crazy Crate
continues our inventory of Census Indexes and Census Transcriptions
with the states of Indiana, Kansas, and Kentucky.
Our next Crazy Crate
will feature Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee Census Indexes and Census Transcriptions.
We hope you find
something useful in these books that can be used over and over without a computer.Having a book in
your hands makes looking for the descendants of a couple much easier. Matching the names of the children of that couple,
particularly in the census reports done in 1850 and those done after 1850 when
all of the names of all of the children are listed right on the census, is much easier, as all the
boys will be found in the same alphabetical list by that surname of their
father. A quick check of the marriages
of all the girls will enable you to check and see if, after their marriage,
they are still living in the same county or state.

INDIANACRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 1: Census of Indiana Territory for 1807. Edited
by Rehab M. Fraustein. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical
Society. 1980. 57 pages.
Hardcover. The Indiana Territory was established in
1800 and only three counties were formed before 1808: Dearborn,
Knox, and Randolph. This book is a facsimile reprint of the
original census pages for those counties.
Each county is listed separately.
An 11-page index provides access to the
correct page in this book. Price: $20.00CRAZY CRATE
JP59 BOOK 2: 1820 Federal Census
for Indiana.
Compiled by Willard Heiss. Indianapolis: IN: Genealogy Section
of
the Indiana Historical Society. 1966.
Reprinted 1975. 321 pages. Hardcover.
This compilation was made from a microfilm copy of the original census.
Unfortunately, no copy of the Census for Daviess County is known to
exist, so it is not on the film
or in this book.
As Mr. Heiss pointed out,
"the whole concept of pagination on the original census suggests
that it may have been done by a character from Alice in Wonderland.
The confusion is compounded by the fact that I found the sheets for
Jennings County had at one time been in two pieces. When they had been
assembled not a single
left hand side matched a right hand side.
I had these pages photographically reproduced, cut them apart and put
them together properly. The information
herein for Jennings County is correct." To make matters worse, the
census taker for Posey County could barely write English, and many of
the
people in his jurisdiction were German, so mistakes were made in writing
the
names. This book is one alphabetical
listing for all 34 counties, with the county and page numbers mentioned
in
separate columns. Each listing also
contains the numbers shown for the various census categories: white
males, white females, ages. Etc. It would be interesting to see how the
digitized copies for Jennings County compare to the book. Price:
$20.00CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 3:
The Indiana 1820 Enumeration of Males. Compiled by Mary M.
Morgan. Indianapolis: Family
History Section, Indiana Historical Society. 1988.
173 pages. Hardcover. The 1816 Indiana Constitution required that an
enumeration of
"all of the white male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one" be
taken every five years, beginning with 1820.
This book is a listing of the enumeration records for 14 counties. It
is arranged alphabetically by county. Within the county information,
the entries
only show the name of the male. The
entries were taken line by line, page by page for each county, so the
names are
not in alphabetical order. No page
numbers are listed and no other information is listed for any entry. A
100-page index indicates the
page number of this book where the male's name appears. Not all
counties were available. This is helpful as a companion volume to the
1820 census information because it provides the names of males who might
only
be listed in the "age" categories of the actual census. The original
enumeration schedules are in the
Indiana State Archives.
Price: $12.00CRAZY
CRATE JP 59 BOOK 4: Index, 1840 Federal Population Census, Indiana.
Compiled
by the Genealogy Division, Indiana State Library. Indianapolis:
Indiana Historical Society. 1991 reprint of the 1975 edition. 374
pages.
Softcover. The 1840 census only
listed the name of the head of the household.
This book is arranged alphabetically by the surname, then the first
name. Each listing provides the county
and page number where the complete information can be found. Price:
$30.00CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 5:
1850 Federal Census Porter County, Indiana. Compiled
by Mrs. Nellie Hiday. Danville, IL: Heritage
House. [YOGS] 1970. 107 pages.
Softcover. Porter County was formed in 1835. The boundaries were changed in 1836, 1859,
and 1923. This book is arranged
alphabetically by surname. Within each
surname, the individual families are listed separately by the name of the head
of the household, name of the wife (if listed), and the names of the
children. The township and household
numbers are given, along with the ages and sex of each individual and their
place of birth. Occupations are also listed. This book lists 814 individual
households. Price: $22.00CRAZY CRATE JP
59 BOOK 6: Index to the 1870 Census, La Porte County, Indiana. Compiled by Betty Newland Werner. La Porte: IN, La Porte County, Indiana Genealogical
Society. 1987. 83 pages. Plastic comb binding. Over 8,000
entries in this index include the heads of households and those persons
in the household with a surname different from the head of household. This index was compiled from microfilm, not
the original census pages. The
information includes the township and the page number. Price:
$8.00CRAZY CRATE JP
59 BOOK 7: Index to the 1880 Census La Porte, County. Indiana. Compiled by Betty Newland Werner. La Porte. Self Published. 1988.
98 pages. Plastic comb
binding. Over 9,800 entries in this index
include the heads of households and those persons in the household with a
surname different from the head of household.
This index was compiled from microfilm, not the original census
pages. The information includes the
township and the page number.
Price: $9.00CRAZY CRATE JP
59 BOOK 8: Vanderburgh County, Indiana 1870 Census. Volume 1:
Armstrong, Center, German, Knight, Pigeon, Perry, Scott and Union Townships; Wards 1 and
2. Edited by Karin Marie Kirsch. Transcribed by
Barbara Smith Thompson
Veazey. Typed by Pamela R. Gries. Evansville, IN: Tri-State
Genealogical Society. 2000. 398 pages. Hardcover.
The microfilm roll for the 1870 census was often hard to read because of
the poor quality of the film. The Fifth
Ward was particularly troublesome. The
filming of a number of the townships had been done in a haphazard order,
which
meant that the pages on the microfilm are often not in the proper
numerical
order. Often one has to keep searching
to the reel to find the second part of a family. The original text
was "corrected" and
marked over before the microfilming was done.
Sometimes the location of countries of origin was made clearer when a
country was written in next to a local name.
On occasion even the sex was changed.
Numerous slashes and lines through the text make it hard to recognize
the actual age listed, or the actual letters written. The
spelling of names and countries of
origin seems to be wonderfully creative.
The individual census takers were not necessarily consistent in their
spelling of names, even when the name appears to be the names of the
same
immediate family. There is also the
challenging inconsistency in the formation of the written letters.
One census taker uses the same written symbol
to indicate the letters F, L, S, and T - but only sometimes. This
book contains the name of the husband,
wife and children, age, sex, race, occupation and place of birth.
The 91-page index contains over 13,000
names. Price: $30.00

KANSASCRAZY CRATE JP
59 BOOK 9: Index to 1880 Mortality Schedule of Kansas. Compiled
by Thelma Carpenter and Helen
Franklin. Topeka: Topeka Genealogical
Society. 1973. 143 pages.
Soft cover. Plastic comb binding. This index was created to aid in the
search
for people and families in Kansas in 1880. It contains the names of
over 14,000 persons
who died in Kansas between June 1, 1879 and May 31, 1880 and who were
listed in the special Mortality Schedule. It lists the person's name
and refers to the
county in which he or she died. A few
counties did not have death enumerations, so the names of the deceased
are not
in this index. The individual county
schedules give the following information: name of the deceased, census
family
number, age, sex, race, marital status, birthplace, father's birthplace,
mother's birthplace, occupation, month of death, length of residence in
county,
and cause of death. This index
provides only the name of the deceased and the county where they died.
You will need to check the individual county
mortality schedules for the entire information.
Price: $15.00KENTUCKYCRAZY CRATE JP
59 BOOK 10: An Index to the 1810 Federal Census of Kentucky. Volume 1:
Adair - Cumberland. Compiled by Lowell M. Volkel. Indianapolis, IN, Heritage
House/YOGS. 1971. 77 pages.
Softcover. Note: the binding is tight and the pages are clean
but the staples are rusting. This index
was compiled from Microcopy 252 Rolls 5 and 9, of the Population Schedule of
the Third Census of the United States. Some of the early census
records are very difficult to read: sometimes because the writing is dim and sometimes because the writing
is illegible. For example "ee" could be
the misinterpretation of "u" or "er".
Undotted "i's" and uncrossed "t's" complicated even careful transcription. The names were recorded in this index as they
appeared to be written in the census.
This may vary a great deal from the way the names are spelled today. Therefore, when using this index one should
check every possible spelling of the names for which he/she is searching. Each name is followed by three groups of
numbers and letters. The first indicates
the county, the second is the page number of the original census, and the third
is the specific line on which that name is found. The printed numbers in the lower left-hand
corner of Roll 5 and the printed numbers in the lower right-hand corner of Roll
9 were used in compiling his index.
Price: $12

NOTE: Volumes 2, 3, and 4 of the Kentucky 1810 will be available on a future crate.NOTE FROM PAT: Dora Wilson Smith was the mother of the owner
of Heritage House, Majorie Smith. With
surnames like Wilson and Smith, her interest in genealogy started early in life
and the name of Heritage House as a trusted publisher of genealogy materials
was a legend in the early 1970s when Ray and I first became interested in
genealogy. Every seminar we attended,
there they were, Mother and Daughter, sharing a nearly life-long interest for
both of them in making genealogy materials available to those of us who shared
that interest. Well-researched
materials, done mostly by genealogists living in the county being researched,
typed on MIMEOGRAPH MASTERS [if you have ever done that you know what a
headache it can be!], neatly typed on a manual typewriter-all that was
available to people at that time- printed on a mimeograph machine, hand
collated and stapled around a dining-room table or up and down the stairway. These books were their stock in
trade. By the time we had become
interested, that firm was already very well-known in Illinois. They encouraged each society to choose a subject
- marriage, birth, death, cemetery, history books and index them, so many more
people could find out by looking at an index, without having to have access to
the actual book, as to whether their surname was mentioned in that book or not. Marjorie and her mother had done over a
hundred books. The census books,
first done by Maryan Gill and her husband, James V. Gill who were working on
indexing the 1800 New Hampshire Census, Lowell Volkell, Assistant State
Archivist of Illinois, was working on the 1800 Connecticut and eventually did
index most of the early Illinois Censuses, 1820 and others up to 1870, aided by
pioneers in the field, such as Maxine Womer, who was working on transcripts of
the Illinois 1850 Census. The Illinois Genealogical
Society, with a county society in nearly every county, was instrumental
in
creating the seminars which encouraged others to join in the
"Hobby/Obsession"
which is genealogy. The more Ray and I
spoke at county seminars all over Illinois, giving speeches and entire
seminars, the more we saw Marjorie and her mother and the more we came
to
really appreciate all their hard work. Shortly
after Mrs. Smith had finished her work on the 1830 Kentucky Censuses
below, she
became ill and after a lengthy illness passed away. Marjorie found her
job and the farm on which
they lived plus the by-now very time consuming publishing business and
the seminar
advertising and retail trips were overwhelming her. We had,
independently of that knowledge, decided
to approach her about selling Heritage House to us as we thought the
merging of
her New England, Kentucky, and Illinois materials would meld well with
our Indiana and Kentucky materials. We talked to her about this at a
seminar, and
she indicated she might accept a reasonable offer. We came home, had
extensive discussions with
our employees and family members, then called her later that week with
an
offer. She accepted our offer and told us we could
come get the books that next week. Ray
rented a large truck, drove to their home, found the stock of the
business was
kept in a huge barn, [thus the slight rusting of the staples.] He
spent that day and the next loading the
boxes of books onto the truck and arrived back home that night. One
more weekend trip in our big van and all
of it was at our house. She had included
everything she had in print which was literally thousands of books in
varying
numbers of hundred of titles. That was
when we realized we did NOT have a barn. Extra storage became our first
priority, and then unloading the truck loomed large and returning the
truck slipped
quietly into third place. We have never
regretted buying Heritage House and simply turned it into the Printing
Arm of
Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe. Then we started working with Charles M.
Franklin, Colleen Alice Ridlen and later Jana Broglin. We keep the
Heritage
House books in our current catalog which is online at our website. The
books we printed
later are also listed there. When a title's
supply is exhausted, we reprint, but in lesser numbers than she printed
because
of the lack of storage space. All books
beginning with HH in the catalog are eit,
should we run out we can print more.]

CRAZY CRATE JP
59 BOOK 11: An Index to the 1820 Federal Census of Kentucky. Volume II:
Counties Daviess - Hopkins. Compiled by Lowell M. Volkel. No publisher listed [now YOGS]. 1974.
114 pages. Softcover. Note.
The binding is tight and the pages are clean but the staples are
beginning to rust. This is the second in
a four volume index series for the 1820 Federal Census of Kentucky. The index was compiled from Microcopy 33
Rolls, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24. The
usual caution of using any published transcription of a manuscript source
should be observed. The writing was
frequently dim, penmanship was often poor, and the names may be spelled
phonetically. The left hand side of most
of the pages for Daviess County was very badly torn.
Consequently, many first names or parts of names are missing for Daviess County. Each name was followed by a county
designation, the page number, and then the line number on that page. Price:
$15CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 12: An Index to the 1820
Federal Census of Kentucky.
Volume III:
Counties Jefferson - Nicholas.
Compiled by Lowell M. Volkel. No publisher listed [now
YOGS]. 1975.
112 pages. Softcover. Note.
The binding is tight and the pages are clean but the staples are
beginning to rust. This is the third in
a four volume index series for the 1820 Federal Census of
Kentucky.
The index was compiled from Microcopy 33 Rolls, 19, 20, 23, 23,
24, 25 and 26. The usual caution of using any
published
transcription of a manuscript source should be observed. The
writing was frequently dim, penmanship
was often poor, and the names may be spelled phonetically.
Page 94 of Mercer County and pages 190, 202, 203, and 215
of Nelson County were inadvertently omitted when
the schedules were originally filmed.
Names for these pages are included in the index. Each name was
followed by a county
designation, the page number, and then the line number on that
page. Price:
$15CRAZY CRATE JP
59 BOOK 13. An Index to the 1820 Federal Census of Kentucky.
Volume IV: Counties Ohio - Woodford. Compiled by Lowell M. Volkel. Indianapolis:
Heritage House/Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe. 1975.
91 pages. Softcover. Note.
The binding is tight and the pages are clean but the staples are
beginning to rust. This is the third in
a four volume index series for the 1820 Federal Census of Kentucky. This volume completes the entire state.
The index was compiled from
Microcopy 33 Rolls,20, 24, 26, 27, 28 and 29. The usual caution of using any published
transcription of a manuscript source should be observed. The writing was frequently dim, penmanship
was often poor, and the names may be spelled phonetically. Each name was
followed by a county designation, the page number, and then the line number on
that page. Price: $13CRAZY CRATE JP
59: SPECIAL OFFER; All four of the above 1820 Census Index books
available for purchase as a set. Volume
1 $12, Volume 2 $15, Volume 3 $15 plus Volume 4 $13, which cover the entire
state of Kentucky in 1820, now not $55, purchased separately, but all for $40.CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 14: Kentucky 1830 Census Index. Volume I:
Counties Adair - Campbell.
Compiled by Dora Wilson Smith.
Thompson. IL: Heritage
House. 1973. 88 pages.
Softcover. Note: the binding is
tight and the pages are clean. This
first volume of the 1830 Kentucky Census Index was copied from the
National Archives Microfilm Rolls M19-33 and part of M 19-34. Readers should be cautious when using any
index. The old faded handwriting was
diminished even more on microfilm. The
interpretation of the original handwriting at times caused the author some
agonizing decisions. The qualifications
of a census taker did not include good penmanship or the ability to spell
names. The format of the index
includes the name of the head of the household in the first column, followed by
the county of residence and the census page number where the name was
found. Price: $13CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 15: Kentucky 1830 Census Index. Volume
II: Counties Casey - Gallatin. Compiled by Dora Wilson
Smith. Thompson. IL: Heritage House. 1973.
82 pages. Softcover. Note: the binding is tight and the pages are
clean. This second volume of the 1830 Kentucky Census Index was copied from the National Archives Microfilm Rolls
M19-34 through M 19-36. Readers should
be cautious when using any index. The
old faded handwriting was diminished even more on microfilm. The interpretation of the handwriting at
times caused agonizing decisions. The
qualifications of a census taker did not include good penmanship or the ability
to spell names. The format of the
index includes the name of the head of the household in the first column,
followed by the county of residence and the census page number where the name
was found. Price: $12 CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK
16: Kentucky 1830 Census Index. Volume III: Counties
Garrard - Hopkins. Compiled
by Dora Wilson Smith. Indianapolis: Heritage House/Ye Olde
Genealogie Shoppe. 1973. 89 pages.
Softcover. Note: the binding is
tight and the pages are clean, but the staples are getting rusty. This
third volume of the 1830 Kentucky Census Index was copied from the
National Archives Microfilm Rolls
M19-36 through M 19-38. Readers should
be cautious when using any index. The
old faded handwriting was diminished even more on microfilm. The
interpretation on the handwriting at
times caused some agonizing decisions.
The qualifications of a census taker did not include good penmanship or
the ability to spell names. The format
of the index includes the name of the head of the household in the first
column, followed by the county of residence and the census page number
where
the name was found. Price: $13 CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 17: Kentucky 1830 Census Index. Volume
IV: Counties Jefferson - Meade. Compiled by Dora Wilson Smith. Indianapolis: Heritage House/Ye Olde
Genealogie Shoppe. 1974. 84 pages.
Softcover. Note: the binding is
tight and the pages are clean, but the staples are getting rusty. This fourth
volume of the 1830 Kentucky Census Index was copied from the National Archives
Microfilm Rolls M19-38 and M 19-39.
Readers should be cautious when using any index. The old faded handwriting was diminished even
more on microfilm. The interpretation on
the handwriting at times caused agonizing decisions. The qualifications of a census taker did not
include good penmanship or the ability to spell names. The format of the index
includes the name of the head of the household in the first column, followed by
the county of residence and the census page number where the name was
found. Price: $12CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 18: Kentucky 1830 Census Index. Volume
V: Counties Mercer - Russell. Compiled by Dora Wilson Smith. Indianapolis: Heritage House/Ye Olde
Genealogie Shoppe. 1974. 87 pages.
Softcover. Note: the binding is
tight and the pages are clean, This
fifth volume of the 1830 Kentucky Census Index was copied from the National
Archives Microfilm Rolls M19-39 through M 19-41. Readers should be cautious when using any
index. The old faded handwriting was
diminished even more on microfilm. The
interpretation on the handwriting at times caused some agonizing
decisions. The qualifications of a
census taker did not include good penmanship or the ability to spell
names. The format of the index includes
the name of the head of the household in the first column, followed by the
county of residence and the census page number where the name was found. Price: $13 CRAZY CRATE JP 59 BOOK 19: Kentucky 1830 Census Index. Volume VI:
Counties Scott - Woodford.
Compiled by Dora Wilson Smith. Thompson, IL:
Heritage House. 1974. 89 pages.
Softcover. Note: the binding is
tight and the pages are clean, This
sixth and final volume of the 1830 Kentucky Census Index was copied from the
National Archives Microfilm Rolls M19-41 and M 19-42. Readers should be cautious when using any
index. The old faded handwriting was
diminished even more on microfilm. The
interpretation on the original handwriting at times caused some agonizing
decisions. The qualifications of a
census taker did not include good penmanship or the ability to spell
names. The format of the index includes
the name of the head of the household in the first column, followed by the
county of residence and the census page number where the name was found. Price: $13 CRAZY CRATE JP
59: SPECIAL OFFER #2; All six of the above 1830 Census Index books
are available for purchase as a set.
Volume 1 $13, Volume 2 $12, Volume 3 $13, Volume 4, $12, Volume 5 $13
and Volume 6 $13, which cover the entire state of Kentucky in 1830, now not
$76, purchased separately, but all six for $50.

NOTICE: The famous Accelerated
Indexing Systems books, are, to my knowledge, no longer available except
on the Used Books Shelves. Yet these Heritage House Editions are still
going strong and are still in print. Nothing beats the convenience of a
book!

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Who knows? Maybe the one you have been looking for will
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with your census and courthouse research and see how your
family puzzle can grow to be more complete!